Sentences with phrase «less action of»

It dares not to make any commentary on the actions of its antagonists less the actions of the protagonists immediately drown the whole narrative under its hypocrisy.

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Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee and will retire at the end of his term in 2018, remarked that President Donald Trump would expend less energy undoing the CFPB's actions if he removed Cordray.

For those not bold (or crazy) enough to ink the image of Jobs on their skin, Legend Toy's 12 - inch plastic action figure made in his likeness was, for a time, a less painful and non-permanent way to keep his memory alive.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

In theory, hedge funds can pursue a lucrative strategy of buying impaired bonds from less knowledgeable investors at deeply discounted prices and then taking aggressive legal action to collect all, or almost all, of the promised principal and interest.

The more calls - to - action that you stick into the email, the less likely it is that the prospect will take any of those actions.

If we ask a customer to take one big leap of faith and complete an action, they are far less likely to be persuaded than if we'd started small.

But delivering the kind of personalized care Bridgepoint — and to perhaps a lesser degree, the province's Action Plan — calls for can actually be more expensive, at least up front, says Dr. Elaine Chin.

Joseph Lhota, the former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)-- he resigned just a few days ago in preparation for a mayoral bid — jumped into action after the storm and got the subways running again within less than three days.

But one of the less advertised aspects of the course is the strict rulebook that patrons are expected to follow while taking in the action.

But the action is in Asia, where Canada barely has made a dent: we send less than 1 % of our exports to India, which currently is the world's fastest growing major economy.

Because they are less obtrusive, ghost buttons help sites highlight more of the content they want audiences to actually see instead of call - to - actions they would otherwise force users to click.

Is someone with abusive paedophile tendencies more or less likely to put those urges into action if he (or indeed she) can indulge those fantasies within the confines of a book?

Writing about the recent FASB and SEC actions, Dayen quoted SEC Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) member Damon Silvers, who expressed the view that «The feeling of this body [IAC] is that more disclosure is better than less in general.

If my goal was to make a cup of coffee or something, there's a whole bunch of actions I might want to take, and the reward signal is a little less clear.

For instance, because parents focus less on the actions of the youngest, that also means that we have to do more to gain attention.

If you see a bounce rate higher than 50 percent to 60 percent of your visitors, or an average time - on - site that's less than one minute, consider taking one or all of the following actions.

In no case, except due to an adjustment to reflect a stock split or other event referred to under «Adjustments» below, and except for any repricing that may be approved by shareholders, will the plan administrator (1) amend an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right to reduce the exercise price or base price of the award, (2) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for cash or other awards for the purpose of repricing the award, (3) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for an option or stock appreciation right with an exercise or base price that is less than the exercise or base price of the original award, or (4) take any other action that is treated as a repricing under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Some of the more paranoid or lawsuit - fearing companies in the U.S. require office couples to sign a wavier or «love contract,» vowing that their relationship is consensual and neither will take legal action against their employer (or each other) should the love prove less than eternal.

Smaller companies have much less bureaucratic red tape, and the ability of one person to see his or her idea put into action has an important motivating effect.

«On the other hand, using the same essential measures of valuation and market action, but including periods of major economic dislocation into the dataset, produces average return / risk inferences that are substantially less favorable.

The 2002 - 2003 lows never actually reached even average valuations, much less historical medians, but we did observe enough value based on normalized fundamentals and improved market action to remove most of our hedges in early 2003.

Regulatory action would be a more straightforward issue if the questioning hinged less on issuer complaints and suspicions and more on clear - cut examples of proxy adviser transgression.

In this scenario Canada would be required to contribute $ 41 billion of stimulus, which is only slightly less than what the federal government did under its Economic Action Plan.

While the claim that John Horgan and the NDP have made does appear to resonate with a substantial number of Canadians, in action, they're less inclined to think that the decision to delay the project was the right one.

If we see more persistence in this action, without further deterioration in corporate bonds, it's possible that we could move off of a Crash Warning to a still - negative but less dramatic set of conditions.

Pursuant to Section 228 of the DGCL, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of our stock entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise.

When you know what you own, you're far less likely to be influenced by the actions of others and take your cues from the stock price.

It likely comes down to dollars and cents; 79 per cent of those who take action to save energy do it to save money, while less than 20 per cent do it to protect the environment.

Technically, the lines should not be connected, since they represent the gains following distinct actions of different central banks, but connecting the points shows the trend toward less and less effective interventions.

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

If you're hesitant to take action in the absence of deep expertise, that translates into being less proactive with finances.»

Others expressed less concern: In an era of globalization, the talk of retaliation may be stronger than the actual action.

This gradual approach and higher level of transparency and consistency have enabled the domestic stock and bond markets to price in anticipated actions, leaving less movement from shocks or surprises.

Czech central bank first in Europe to hike rates While the Bank of England and the European Central Bank have been contemplating shifting to less accommodative monetary policy stances, the Czech central bank took action on Thursday, raising its main policy rate from 0.05 % to 0.25 %, its first hike since 2008.

But climate action isn't just about what we need less of; it's also about what we need more of.

Climate action isn't just about what we need less of; it's also about what we need more of.

Looks like if theres a price action set up on these larger Time frames, the NFP gyrations are much less of a problem.

A fractional stock is less than one full stock, and can arise as a result of a Corporate Action entitlement calculation.

Participants» choices are limited when bear markets occur, he argues: «You pretty much can't go back into the workforce (so) your only course of action is to reduce your standard of living, spend less.

Regardless of whether the plan is applied or not, terrorists and criminals won't really have a hard time in finding a less - risky way to get their hands on more cash, and when this happens, chances are that the circumstances will call for yet another action plan.

The extended sideways action of the market on low volume has made it very difficult to gain traction from any specific theme, much less from general areas of favorable valuation or market action.

The actions of the Mormons who «baptized» dead Jews is still significantly less heinous than the actions of some Roman Catholic Inquisitors who actually exhumed the corpses of some people to put them on «trial» for heresy.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Are campaigning and voting the be-all and end - all of Christian political action, or are we better off diverting some of those dollars and hours to less flashy projects that have the potential to leaven political culture over the long haul?

I think the irony here is that you have to compare the actions of believers who supposedly seek to do God's will to those of godless atheists to make believers» atrocities sound less atrocious.

It's out there, reflected to greater or lesser degrees in your actions, your written and spoken words, and the testimonies of those closest to you.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

I know we can not forestall, still less dictate to you, even the smallest of your actions; from you alone comes all initiative — and this applies in the first place to my prayer.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)